NY Medciaid Rate Cut to Hit Disabled

ALBANY, N.Y. — A change to federal reimbursement rates for New York’s care of the developmentally disabled will deliver a $500 million hit to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal, his administration announced Wednesday.Cuomo’s 30-day budget amendments reflect a planned change in the rates paid by the federal government to the state for patients at nine facilities for the developmentally disabled. The federal government began negotiating a rate change with the state after a Poughkeepsie Journal investigation in 2010 revealed state and federal reimbursements totaled $4,556 per patient, per day.